'Heroes Reborn' Is Designed as Season 10, One Original Character Dies in the Revival
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The 13-episode event series gets an extended premiere and will air from 8-10 P.M. on Thursday, September 24, pushing back 'The Blacklist' return to October 1.

AceShowbiz - "Heroes Reborn" will serve as continuation of the original series, but won't pick up right where the "Heroes" finale left off. At the final panel of the Television Critics Association summer press tour, creator Tim Kring revealed he approached the upcoming series as season 10 of the franchise rather than the fifth season that it never had.

"This is not the fifth season; we're treating this as the 10th season - as if there were stories in between. I'd always wanted to tell the story of what happened in that time," he said. "I know that sounds a little provocative but the point is, one of the things that we talked about at the very beginning in the writers room was how we wanted every single bit of the mythology to feel as though there was a continuum from the show, and the show picks up five years later."

"We're saying the exact amount of time that ['Heroes' has] been off, is the amount of time the story moved," he added, noting that had the show continued airing, it would be on its 10th season in 2015.

Kring said that Noah Bennet a.k.a. HRG (Jack Coleman) would help explain what happened in the five years between the original series and the revival. He explained, "One of the things that we did with that is the character HRG, played by Jack Coleman, his storyline is uncovering the mystery of what happened in the intervening years. By following him, he kind of unpacks a lot of the mythology from the original series for the audience. There are things that he doesn't remember for various reasons that he has to go and find out why don't I know what I'm supposed to know here? He's uncovering a mystery."

HRG will appear in every episode, but not all returning characters are featured in all 13 episodes of the event series. "None of the former characters except for Jack's character is in every episode. All the characters that return are peppered in and out of the show," Kring stressed.

As for Claire Bennet (Hayden Panettiere) who won't return for the revival, Kring revealed "she has died along with many, many other people on" a June 13 attack that happened a year before the show starts.

However, not every character who's not returning will be addressed on the forthcoming series. "We do not deal with that," Kring reasoned. "Partly that was exactly the reason of how much do you need to know? If you're not going to have somebody no the show, you have a loaded name attached to that person, why make people think about a character that isn't in the show or not going to be in the show? We hope that the story we're telling doesn't lead you to ask that question."

"Heroes Reborn" premiere is now extended to two hours and will air from 8-10 P.M. on Thursday, September 24 on NBC. It, thus, pushes "The Blacklist" season 3 premiere back to October 1.

Masi Oka (Hiro), Greg Grunberg (Matt Parkman), Sendhil Ramamurthy (Dr. Mohinder Suresh), Jimmy Jean-Louis (The Haitian/Rene) and Noah Gray-Cabey (Micah Sanders) are other original actors set to return for the miniseries. The new stars, meanwhile, include Zachary Levi, Ryan Guzman, Robbie Kay, Danika Yarosh, Judith Shekoni, Kiki Sukezane, Henry Zebrowski and Gatlin Green.

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